Learning Words from Reading

This book effectively draws together key theories and empirical findings from various disciplines to clearly describe the processes involved in incidental learning of second language vocabulary from reading. * Rachael C. Hulme, Research Fellow, Aston University, UK * Hamada addresses a fundamental issue in L2 reading: How we Learn Words from Reading. She carefully reviews and categorizes the large and growing research on types of L1-L2 transfer effects (linguistic and contextual) and uses these findings to develop a coherent model of second-language word recognition and word learning: The Cognitive Model of Word-Meaning Inference. * William Grabe, Emeritus Regents Professor of Applied Linguistics, Northern Arizona University, USA * Taking an interdisciplinary approach to research synthesis, Megumi Hamada explores incidental vocabulary learning from multiple perspectives, including linguistics, reading, and psychology. The book will serve as an insightful and valuable resource for students, teachers, and scholars in second language acquisition and language education. * Keiko Koda, Professor of second language acquisition and Japanese, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * This book provides a valuable resource on reading and vocabulary learning. It provides a succinct overview of the theoretical and empirical literature on incidental word learning and also covers the processes involved in inferring word meaning from reading. The book is laudable for its quality and clarity of presentation. * Hossein Nassaji, Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Victoria, Canada *